eli5 Extrusion process

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I’m a recruiter for an employment agency so we deal with a multitude of different jobs. I don’t know a lot about the industrial aspects and I come across extrusion a lot and “racking extrusions” ….what the hell is extrusion?

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Did you ever have that Play-Doh set where you have that thing that you put some Play-Doh in and put a strip with a shape on the other side, and you push down on it and the Play-Doh comes out the other end in that shape? That’s an extrusion.

More examples are vinyl siding, gutters, round aluminum rods, PVC pipe, the list goes on and on. It’s just forcing product through a die or series of dies to make a continuous line of something of a certain shape.

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